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Re: The new house (Night's Den) doesn't hold a candle to the Hall of the Lunar Champion
The Night’s Den came nicely furnished and when you unlock the three rooms, you get three more furnishing coffers to go with them. That’s pretty generous.
Hall of the Lunar Champion had three areas that were hard for me to figure out how to even use. I ended up furnishing the house in the third one but the other two and the entry are empty. I have seen some amazing builds in the first area but I gave up on it.
I feel that Night’s Den is a better deal, even if you don’t ever unlock the three additional rooms.
Hall of the Lunar Champion had three areas that were hard for me to figure out how to even use. I ended up furnishing the house in the third one but the other two and the entry are empty. I have seen some amazing builds in the first area but I gave up on it.
I feel that Night’s Den is a better deal, even if you don’t ever unlock the three additional rooms.
Re: Faceted Foes: Help
I encountered a number of them during the first day of NM, and they appear to be in random locations, and it's just an enemy with a yellow glow.
Re: Issues with heavy attacks in NM?
Yes same problem here, some of them cannot be targetted at all.
Re: DPS is the Fair-Haired Child?
There's only so much you can do tank and healer wise in group content. DPS is what guarantees something to be cleared, and since being a DD is the easiest role for someone to do in the game, making a class do more damage is not a bad thing. Essentially, an increase in DPS is a buff for healer and tank roles since it makes them take less pressure. The less time the fight takes, the less "clutch" heal and tank moments you need.
Also, it's not like DK is a bad class tank wise. They were given a skill that allows them to permanently block which trivializes the sustain portion of the role which is probably the hardest part about tanking. The class mastery passives are also going to give them a group wide major berserk and protection buff. They also have a templar rune skill which grants major protection and a heal over time. They're doing just fine there.
When DPS gets buffed so heavily that groups can just skip or ignore mechanics entirely by burning everything down, it actively sidelines the support classes.
Also, if you think everything is single-meta builds now, wait until you get rid of the supports. They’re already clearing CR+3 with one tank and 11 DPS. Just a little more DPS and everything will be all DPS all the time.
I’d rather see actual love given to the support roles instead of turning every class into a DPS.
Furyous
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Re: DPS is the Fair-Haired Child?
CatalinaWineMixer2 wrote: »I couldn't agree with you more. We need more emphasis on anything but dps in the game moving forward. What they really need is a dps cap. It will eliminate meta and people will actually have to follow mechanics and find some other way to help their group when they're at the ceiling. It will also balance the classes and put Subclassing in check since the refuse to put a stop to cherry picking with a calculator.
CatalinaWineMixer2 wrote: »I couldn't agree with you more. We need more emphasis on anything but dps in the game moving forward. What they really need is a dps cap. It will eliminate meta and people will actually have to follow mechanics and find some other way to help their group when they're at the ceiling. It will also balance the classes and put Subclassing in check since the refuse to put a stop to cherry picking with a calculator.
Far from it. What you'll see is "one build to reach the cap with the least effort" taking over. Even more cookie-cutter than it is now.
Endgame has always revolved around heavily optimized and min-maxed builds. This existed long before subclassing and even before ESO. The meta crowd will always push whatever they deem as the single best build.
My bigger concern is that while DPS is the majority of the playerbase, putting nearly all the dev focus into DPS while largely ignoring support roles is making the game feel one-dimensional. Why does every class need to perform all three roles equally well? What was wrong with some classes being clearly the best tanks or healers?
I don’t want to take anything away from DPS, but as long as they’re tweaking classes, they should really give some proper support to the supports too.
Furyous
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Re: A warning against doing content shortly after release
A while back there was a post about how someone lost access to a character for nearly a year or something when Support tried to grant an achievement that should have been granted by the game but bugged out. There’s a reason they won’t usually try it. Sometimes the (artificial) remedy is worse than the disease.
I’d also caution against assuming QA missed all this. There was an article on Fallout 76, which shares QA with this game, where QA testers noted repeatedly that they found many bugs and other issues not fixed before release. QA’s job is to find bugs, not to fix them, and since we never get the internal list of known issues, we can’t know what QA missed as opposed to what the people responsible for fixing the bugs haven’t gotten to yet. The people interviewed in that article were very frustrated with that gap, understandably.
I’d also caution against assuming QA missed all this. There was an article on Fallout 76, which shares QA with this game, where QA testers noted repeatedly that they found many bugs and other issues not fixed before release. QA’s job is to find bugs, not to fix them, and since we never get the internal list of known issues, we can’t know what QA missed as opposed to what the people responsible for fixing the bugs haven’t gotten to yet. The people interviewed in that article were very frustrated with that gap, understandably.
Re: Exclude WW from Signet
I wonder, if they added Major Timidity into the game (which would drain 3 ultimate every 1.5 seconds, based on how Major Heroism works) and added that on top of the Minor Timidity, so you drain 4 ultimate every 1.5 seconds, would that be enough to put it in a better spot?
Doing damage with light attacks gives you 3 ultimate every 1 second, so that can easily counteract Minor Timidity, but it might have a harder time if Major Timidity was there too
Doing damage with light attacks gives you 3 ultimate every 1 second, so that can easily counteract Minor Timidity, but it might have a harder time if Major Timidity was there too
Re: Whats the point of the PTS
The point is for the sweatiest of the sweats to spend dozens of hours testing and optimizing the Next Most Broken Thing so that they can run into Cyrodil at the earliest possible time and gank people before any1 else catches on
The PTS is where the content creators report to everyone about how broken the latest thing is going to be (Oakensoul, Patch 35, Subclassing etc etc), only to be roundly ignored by the devs and going live to wreck the game.
Re: Whats the point of the PTS
The point is for the sweatiest of the sweats to spend dozens of hours testing and optimizing the Next Most Broken Thing so that they can run into Cyrodil at the earliest possible time and gank people before any1 else catches on